Journal file photoA 60-year-old woman was scammed out of $160 after signing lease.

HOBOKEN — A 60-year-old city woman was scammed out of $160 after she signed a lease for an apartment in the very Adams Street building where she lives, police reports said.

The site director for the Hoboken Housing Authority contacted police Thursday and told them the woman signed the lease earlier this month that was given to her by another resident in her building, reports said.

The woman's 43-year-old nephew told police that a resident in the building told his aunt her he could get her into a new, one-bedroom apartment on 13th Street that because he knew someone at the HHA, he could get her into the new apartment, but he needed a $160 deposit to get the ball rolling, reports said.

The aunt signed the lease and paid the man, but when the nephew went to Housing Authority officials, they said the so-called lease actually pertained to an apartment inside the Adams Street building where his aunt lived it was not legitimate, reports said.